And why would that happen? Spite?
We already know that in the US, as with most of the Western world, the legality or illegality of abortions has very little impact on the actual number of abortions taking place. The sole drivers of abortion demand are unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. Not every unplanned or unwanted pregnancy will end in an abortion of course. But the more of those you have, the more abortions you get.
The
legal abortion rate today is
lower than the illegal abortion rate was before Roe V Wade. Some of the countries with the lowest abortion rates provide abortions in the vast majority of circumstances
for free.
With legal restriction, all you are really changing is who performs the procedure, where they perform it, what they charge, and how safe it is. Oh and how you plan to punish the mother and the provider. That will be just a hilarious bunch of fun. Throw a single mother of 5 on welfare in jail for a couple of months. Yeah, That'll work out just fine.
Our current methodology for reducing and making abortion illegal in the US is by reducing access to the service. Unfortunately, we can't seem do do that here
without also reducing access to the only thing that actually has an impact on lowering abortion. Access to education, family planning, and birth control. Those things work because they reduce the number of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, which drive abortion demand.
So with legal restriction you basically end up increasing demand. And supply will always find a way to meet demand.